Editing Lost literary work (section)

==Rediscovered works==
* ''[[The 120 Days of Sodom]]'', written by the [[Marquis de Sade]] in the [[Bastille]] prison in 1785, was considered lost by its author (and was much lamented by him) after the [[Storming of the Bastille|storming and looting of 1789]]. It was rediscovered in the walls of his cell and published in 1904.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/120-days-de-sodom-made-national-treasure-by-french-government|title=120 Days of Sodom|website=theguardian.com|date=18 December 2017 |access-date=August 22, 2023 |last1=France-Presse |first1=Agence }}</ref>
* ''Lesbian Love'', by [[Eva Kotchever]], had only 150 copies published "for private circulation only" in 1925. Historian [[Jonathan Ned Katz]] searched and found the only known copy, owned by Nina Alvarez, who had found the book in the lobby of her apartment building in 1998 in Albany, New York. Records show that another copy was held in the Sterling Library at Yale University, but it has not been located.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Rediscovering Eve Adams, the Radical Lesbian Activist|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/rediscovering-eve-adams-the-radical-lesbian-activist|access-date=2021-06-30|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US}}</ref>
* The [[Gospel of Judas]], a fragmentary [[Coptic language|Coptic]] [[codex]] rediscovered and translated, 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/science/06cnd-judas.html|title='Gospel of Judas' Surfaces After 1,700 Years|last=Wilford|first=John Noble|author2=Laurie Goodstein |date=April 6, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=19 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/document.html|title=View the Gospel of Judas Interactive Document|work=[[National Geographic Society]]|access-date=19 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060408052336/http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/document.html|archive-date=April 8, 2006}}</ref>
* [[Henri Poincaré]]'s prize-winning submission for the 1889 celestial mechanics contest of king [[Oscar II]] was thought to be lost.  While this version was being printed, Poincaré himself discovered a serious error.  The existing version was recalled and then replaced by a heavily modified and corrected version, now regarded as the seminal description of [[chaos theory]].  The original erroneous submission was thought to be lost, but it was found in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mittag-leffler.se/library/henri-poincare |title=FROM ORDER TO CHAOS: THE PRIZE COMPETITION IN HONOUR OF KING OSCAR II |author= Mikael Rågstedt |publisher=Institut Mittag-Leffler}}</ref>
* [[W. A. Mozart]] and [[Antonio Salieri]] are known to have composed together a cantata for voice and piano called ''[[Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia]]'' which was celebrating the return to stage of the singer [[Nancy Storace]], and which has been lost, although it had been printed by [[Artaria]] in 1785.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/noticias/oci-i-cultura/cantata-conjunta-mozart-salieri-posa-entredit-rivalitat-musics-4836075|title=Mozart i Salieri van escriure junts una cantata|work=[[El Periódico de Catalunya]]|date=January 22, 2016|access-date=January 25, 2016}}</ref> The music had been considered lost until November 2015, when German musicologist and composer [[Timo Jouko Herrmann]] identified the score while searching for music by one of Salieri's ostensible pupils, [[Antonio Casimir Cartellieri]], in the archives of the Czech Museum of Music in [[Prague]].<ref name="Reuters">Muller, R., and Kahn, M., [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-czech-mozart-idUSKCN0VP1PQ "Czech musician performs long-lost Mozart score for first time"], [[Reuters]], Feb. 16, 2016.</ref>
* ''[[The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots|A Tale of Kitty in Boots]]'' by [[Beatrix Potter]], the handwritten manuscripts for this story were found in school notebooks, including a few illustrations. She intended to finish the book, but was interrupted by wars and marriage and farming. It was found nearly 100 years later and published for the first time in September 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/health/beatrix-potter-book-kitty-in-boots-impact/|title=Discovered Beatrix Potter Tale, Kitty in Boots, releases |first=Ashley |last=Strickland |work=[[CNN]] |date=September 6, 2016|access-date=December 3, 2016}}</ref>